Miller v. Baker
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 127, April T., 1916, by defendants, from order of C. P. Cambria Co., March T., 1915, No. 534, discharging rule to open judgment in case of Miller & Costlow v. S. E. Baker and the Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co', of New York. Rule to open judgment. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was order discharging rule to open judgment.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Williams, J.,
The defendant Baker had a policy in the Globe and Rutgers’ Insurance Company of New York. A fire occurred and the company admitted its liability. The plaintiffs, who had a judgment against Baker, attached the amount due him in the hands of the company. Upon interrogatories, the defendant company admitted its liability to Baker in the sum of five hundred dollars, whereupon judgment was entered for the plaintiffs, March 5, 1915, upon the answers to the interrogatories. The company on July 19,1915, presented its petition for an opening of the judgment upon the ground that…
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